9:01 AM,
May 7, 2014

Monica Lewinsky, seen in 1999, talks about her affair with President Bill Clinton in the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

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Catalina Camia
USA Today

Lynne Cheney posed this question about the timing of Monica Lewinsky's first-person essay in Vanity Fair: Were the Clintons behind this?

"I really wonder if this isn't an effort on the Clintons' part to get that story out of the way," Cheney, wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney, said during a Tuesday night interview on Fox News. "Would Vanity Fair publish anything about Monica Lewinsky that Hillary Clinton didn't want in Vanity Fair?"

In the news release promoting Lewinsky's much-buzzed-about story, the former White House intern says the Clintons had nothing to do with her decision to ...